Redaction for deal documents
Secure, zero-upload redaction for recurring images &
text – Select a name, a logo or an image once. Every copy is
removed, at any size or colour, including on a scan and inside a
chart.
The file never leaves your device.
Key features
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Nothing is uploaded
No server, no account, no analytics. The document is opened, read and rewritten inside this tab. No LLM is used. Verify it yourself
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Text, logos and pictures
Type any word and every occurrence is redacted, even if the word is a scanned image. Same for logos and images, regardless of size or colour.
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Labels, not blanks
Optionally label each redaction
[P1],[E2], so a later reader – or a model – can still follow the sentence. The same thing always gets the same label. -
A full set of PDF tools
Audit and trace each redaction easily. Extract, rotate, add text to pages. Save a draft and continue later. Works on mobile too.
Blinded in under a minute
A real deck, redacted
Kimberly-Clark's investor presentation on buying Kenvue. Both companies' logos and names, key brands and people's names are redacted on every slide, even inside the artwork, while the figures, charts and rival brands stay readable. Each bar is labelled, so the sentences still read.
Top use cases
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Before it goes to an AI. Take the names and logos out, then paste the file into any model. The numbers and the argument survive; the party does not.
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Deal materials. CIMs, board decks, diligence packs. Cover the target once and every copy goes, down to the badge in a chart on page 63.
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Legal agreements. Counterparties, prices and signatures out. The clauses stay readable, so the precedent can be shared without the deal.
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Discovery and FOIA. Covered text is gone from the file, not hidden under a rectangle somebody can select through. Each bar says what it removed.
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Medical records. Names, dates, record numbers and hospital marks off a chart before it is used for research, teaching or a second opinion.
How Blinded compares
Blinded is the only redaction tool that never takes the file to the cloud, never uses a model, and still automatically finds repeated text, logos and images by sight and removes them completely.
| What is being compared | Blinded | Acrobat Pro | Redactable | KeptPDF |
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| Where the file goes | Stays in this tab. Works offline. | Desktop, yes. The web version uploads. | Their cloud. | On device, then a login. |
| What a bar removes | Everything. The page is rebuilt from pixels. | Nothing, until you Apply and Sanitize. | Everything, on their servers. | Everything. Flattened. |
| Logos, stamps, faces | Pick one; every copy goes, any size or colour. | Draw a box. Every time. | Found for you – in the cloud. | Text only. A face still needs you. |
| Names, and words in a picture | Type it once. Caught in the text and the artwork. | Find, one spelling at a time. | Matched in the cloud. | On device, 45 kinds. No visual picker. |
| Proof of privacy | Read the source. The browser enforces it. | None. Trust the operator. | A certificate, from the host. | A checksum on the export. |
| Readable afterwards | [P1] labels; the key stays with you. | Black boxes. | Tokens, mapped in their project. | Tokens, inside their suite. |
| Cost | Free below 30 pages. No account. | A paid seat. | Free for a few, then monthly. | Free with their branding. |
Q&A
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Carry on from your draft
A draft holds your marks, not the document – which is why it is a few kilobytes. Keep it as carefully as the document itself: the words you asked to cover are in it, and so is any note you wrote on a page.
The image you picked
Search in two phases
Blinded will search this document in two phases. Marks from the first are ready to review while the second runs.
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2 Image & text-in-image search
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Enter your license
It is checked here, in this tab, against a key built into this page. Nothing is sent anywhere to verify it, and it keeps working offline.
Are you sure?

Image redaction selection
Drag a corner to fit the box to it. A box drawn tightly around the mark finds it far more reliably than a loose one.
This PDF is locked
The password is used here, in this tab, to open the file. Like the file, it is never sent anywhere.
Save your file
The output is not certified and mistakes in redaction detection may be made. Review the document in detail before saving. Terms
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